Merged Danny Glover: Haiti earthquake because of Copenhagen summit

[maddog]

Says Glover: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?” His obscene opinion would be bigger news if Glover had – like Pat Robertson – idiotically blamed a less-fashionable deity.

 

[Ixion]

I don't know if this directly relates, but I have some friends that strongly believe that global warming is the cause of the earthquake. Forgive my ignorance, but 1) does the level of global warming we are seeing now have any significant impact on seismic activity? and 2) wasn't Port-au-Prince on a fault line that was expected to shift soon?

 

[truethat]

Whenever a Natural Disaster happens I think of George Carlin's remark that the planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

 

[maddog]

I don't know if this directly relates, but I have some friends that strongly believe that global warming is the cause of the earthquake. Forgive my ignorance, but 1) does the level of global warming we are seeing now have any significant impact on seismic activity? and 2) wasn't Port-au-Prince on a fault line that was expected to shift soon?

1) No.

2) It is on a fault line, but "expected" is a bit too strong of a word. The science of predicting earthquakes is ... hmmm... how to say it.... still developing. More like - it's on a fault line, there will be an earthquake there sometime, but when or how strong is wide open.

 

[ravdin]

Danny Glover is an idiot. News at 11.

 

[Ixion]

1) No.

2) It is on a fault line, but "expected" is a bit too strong of a word. The science of predicting earthquakes is ... hmmm... how to say it.... still developing. More like - it's on a fault line, there will be an earthquake there sometime, but when or how strong is wide open.

Thanks. It was as I expected. I guess I was a little mislead by this AP article which said

Scientists who detected worrisome signs of growing stresses in the fault that unleashed this week's devastating earthquake in Haiti said they warned officials there two years ago that their country was ripe for a major earthquake.

Their sobering findings, presented during a geological conference in March 2008 and at meetings two months later, showed that the fault was capable of causing a 7.2-magnitude earthquake — slightly stronger than Tuesday's 7.0 quake that rocked the impoverished country.

Bolding mine. I figured that there was some predictive measures involved, even if it was only +/- a decade or so. However, later in the article they mention

Their conclusions also lacked a specific timeframe that could have prodded quick action to shore up the hospitals, schools and other buildings that collapsed and crumbled, said Paul Mann, a senior research scientist at the University of Texas' Institute for Geophysics.

Nevertheless, my geologic and seismic knowledge is pretty limited, so I have to rely on public access such as the AP for this kind of information. Here is a link to the whole article for those that want to read it:
Scientists warned Haiti officials of quake in '08

 

[Vortigern99]

I don't understand the correlation Glover is making between Copenhagen and Haiti.

Is he saying that (his) God is angry because we couldn't agree on how solve the AGW problem?

Or that (his) God is incensed that we even tried to find a solution in the first place?

Or that since we couldn't solve AGW in the snap of a finger, it has led inexorably to the Haiti disaster owing to an imagined connection between AGW and seismic activity?

I'm a bit confuzzled.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Danny Glover on the earthquake in Haiti

Never mind how stupid it is or that no one cares in a general way what Danny Glover says.

This is about to become part of The Narrative^TM.

VIDEO (linktv.org)

 

[dudalb]

I guess that playing a lead role in the crappy "2012" flick makes Glover an expert on how to handle Disasters.

 

[dudalb]

Danny Glover is an idiot. News at 11.

But he played the President of the United States in "2012"! That makes him a expert on natural disasters......

 

[dudalb]

1) No.

2) It is on a fault line, but "expected" is a bit too strong of a word. The science of predicting earthquakes is ... hmmm... how to say it.... still developing. More like - it's on a fault line, there will be an earthquake there sometime, but when or how strong is wide open.

The ability to accurately predict the timing of earthquakes, or when a big one is imminent, is a long,long,way off.

 

[Upchurch]

Man, he's too old for this

 

[Careyp74]

What is The Narrative?

 

[Careyp74]

Hollywood actors are not doing their part in combating AGW. If more don't pitch in, I think there will be an earthquake there as punishment.

 

[iiwo]

1. The video was garbled just enough and Glover was talking just fast enough that I can't be certain I heard correctly.

2. I'm not sure he is saying the earthquake happened because of the climate summit, but that the "internationalism" of the response may have been due in part to the recent climate summit. I think he may be saying that by raising various nations eyebrows to the possibility of disasters in the Carribean (and elsewhere, obviously), and that unless we can come together as a world, internationally (like we did at the summit) future disasters (such as those caused by global warming) will have poor responses.

3. Listen to the video again, and see #1...

 

[HawksFan]

Hollywood actors are not doing their part in combating AGW. If more don't pitch in, I think there will be an earthquake there as punishment.

I've been advocating Air Force practice bombing along the San Andreas fault for some time now. I think it would be the best thing to happen to this country in a long time for Hollywood and the greater Los Angeles area to drift off into the Pacific.

 

[lomiller]

Says Glover: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?” His obscene opinion would be bigger news if Glover had – like Pat Robertson – idiotically blamed a less-fashionable deity.

Both are stupid, but moderately famous people saying stupid things generally isn’t newsworthy in it’s own right. Robertson’s comments have an extra layer of offensivness that made them newsworthy.

 

[FlamingMoe]

Both are stupid, but moderately famous people saying stupid things generally isn’t newsworthy in it’s own right. Robertson’s comments have an extra layer of offensivness that made them newsworthy.

What layer is that? Both are claiming the quake is retribution for something. Whether the doler of justice is God or Our Mother Earth, I don't see how either of them is more offensive or stupid than the other.

 

[Travis]

I think we need more context to know exactly what he meant. Robertson and Rush were pretty blatant in what they meant....this is rather ambiguous.

 

[rwguinn]

I've been advocating Air Force practice bombing along the San Andreas fault for some time now. I think it would be the best thing to happen to this country in a long time for Hollywood and the greater Los Angeles area to drift off into the Pacific.

Pardon me, but isn't the Pacific plate moving TOWARD the North American plate?
Breaking the fault loose would put much of California into Nevada and Arizona, not adrift in the ocean?
And putting Californians closer to Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico is a terrible thing to do to those states